Thanx for clarification. W.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:14:55 -0500, "Matt McCutchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 19:38 +0200, W wrote: > > When syncing files from client to server, one would have on server, for > > example, three last verisons of synced files. > > Rsync has a --backup option that you can use to create single backups of > overwritten files on the server. Rsync won't maintain multiple backups > per file on its own, but you can have it use a different backup suffix > or backup directory on each run. > > I can't think of an easy way to keep the last three distinct versions of > each file, but keeping a file as it existed during each of the last > three synchronizations is easy: fill and rotate three separate backup > dirs. In fact, rsnapshot does just this. > > -- > Matt McCutchen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/ > -- W [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
